So... Bailing Out. This was a story that I started writing back in 2013 when I was on my MLP: FiM craze for a while. Trust me, it was an odd time in my life to obsess over that specific franchise. Don't get me wrong, it's not a terrible show and can be enjoyable at times, especially if you do have younger children that you want to spend time with and this isn't a bad way to do so with; plus, there's the adults/older audience references in episodes that adults can look for while their kids/younger sibs are being entertained by the Aesop style stories and morals. I mean there's a Bioshock Infinite easter egg in one episode! Younger kids wouldn't get that! But I digress.

This was an idea which sort of kicked off my FanFiction "career" as it were. It was the first project that I put a lot of hard work and effort into while writing it. At times I attempted to stay three chapters ahead of time when I released it, but this was when I was in my younger college years when I could afford to put off three or four hours to write fiction. When the end of 2014 rolled around, a year after I started this fic, I just stopped updating it, I lost interest in it and it just sat in my online archive for years just waiting for me to update it, the story on FimFiction waiting for me to update it. Hell, I still haven't logged back into that old account to mark the story as canceled to stop giving people false hope that it'll be updated by me ever again.

The whole story idea was an OC that I created got home from war overseas after his enlistment ended and was attempting to get used to civilian life once more. He would then discover a woman in his house that claimed to be the character "Spitfire" from the FiM franchise. Things would happen and he would eventually go to Equestria for "reasons." Then that's where I left off. That was it. There was drama mostly, some romance here and there, but it was my first attempt at fanfiction and I just didn't know what I wanted to do with it. I was watching a video by The Act Man over on YouTube and in his video discussing the Halo franchise and what 343i did to Halo instead of what Bungie did to Halo and he talked about how Bungie had an endgame for the entire series even as they released the first game. They knew where they were going to go. They had a starting point and a destination, it was up to the writers to write them a path to get there. For this story that I wrote, I had no endgame. I had no destination, just a bunch of things thrown together in events not unlike a Slice of Life show or anime. When I look back in it, it makes more sense now that since I had no idea where I was going what was the purpose of updating it? I could just keep on writing myself into a deeper and deeper hole where I would have to come up with convoluted plotlines and settings in order to make what I think I wanted to work, or I could just pull out. I could bail on it. And that's what I did to this particular story.

That being said. If any of you were on FimFiction at any point and knew of this little story of mine, but was unsure if I was the same person, well "Bailing Out" is now officially cancelled and abandoned. Sorry if some of you were really looking forward to that one, those of you that may have found this here. That being said I have the standard disclaimers:

I own nothing other than my laptop and my copy of MS Word. MLP:FiM belongs to the Hub, DHX, and whoever else owns it. I only own original characters and plotlines.

Secondary disclaimer: There are three "chapters" that contain well over 40k words each. These chapters are completely as they were when I last saw them two years ago and have NOT been edited in any way. Ergo, any weird formatting you see is due to the other site's preferred formatting choice of BBcode instead of HTML. In Word I remember these documents were compiled of 100 or so standard formatted document pages of the chapters instead of individual files, hence the reason for their absurd amount of words per "chapter."

Tertiary disclaimer: Again, as stated in the Scrapyard repository foreword if you do wish to adopt this, please message me via PM and if you require the original documents I can either send them to you via an email of your choice or send them through the site's DocX feature.